Cambodian government says stone artefacts kept at San Francisco home of billionaire Lindemann family match those looted from sacred site

Georges Lotfi has been accused of handling the types of materials he helped the police recover and repatriate for years

In wake of scandal involving former Louvre director, France's culture minister forms taskforce to assess acquisitions procedures at museums

Five objects worth more than €3m have been confiscated by authorities as part of a wide-ranging global investigation involving former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

A number of objects purchased by the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are now under scrutiny—including an ancient Egyptian marble head worth €35m

Martinez has been indicted for “complicity of gang fraud and laundering“ of objects purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Louvre Abu Dhabi

Investigation focuses on purchases made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi

The artefacts were flagged by Christos Tsiogiannis, who has, since 2006, been identifying looted antiquities through photographic archives of suspected and convicted dealers in plunder

Research published by forensic archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis suggests the brilliant fresco fragment may have been illegally excavated near Pompeii

The items have been under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney since 2017

The host of the Art Bust podcast argues that the nature and purpose of art crime–and by extension, of the art detectives who fight it—has changed in recent years

Tools and other objects were discovered in a national park in southwest Texas, triggering an inquiry

Critics say Turkish government polices give short shrift to religious minorities’ cultural heritage

Institution has been faulted for a lack of oversight in determining what artefacts were legally exported and sold

Government-funded image-recognition software will enable law enforcers to work with international organisations

Dealers association challenged the campaign’s claims that two newly pictured objects were stolen

Authorities have accused Erdal Dere and Faisal Khan of running an alleged scheme to swindle buyers by using fake provenances

Legal case brought against antiquities expert who also sold an allegedly looted golden sarcophagus to the Metropolitan Museum last year, while an arrest is made in Germany

Expert in Khmer and Indian antiquities was a dealer in Cambodian art in the 1970s and last year was accused of smuggling and creating false provenances for antiquities

Interpol says the operation spanned 103 countries and that objects ranged from coins to paintings to fossils